Monday, June 15, 2009

Summer Journals

It seems that Summer has finally arrived here - we had a very slow start and even yet, I'm not convinced that the Spring weather has truly vanished. In anticipation of the season, I have been making some fun summer journals...which just means they are a bit more colourful than others!

Halifax recently had Bike Week to kick off the bike season. So I carved a bicycle rubber stamp and made some notebooks. We were there watching these guy race and my kid zoomed around on his tricycle. I had the bicycle stamp with me and gave the kids bike tattoos too.

I've done a bunch of leather and suede journals too, lots of summer here. Including two of my "margarita journals" in Blue Curacao and Green Iguana!

The leather and suede books all have a rainbow of pages inside, using seven different colours of paper. This one is a lemon-lime suede mini book: